[tex-live] TL installer xz.x86_64 expects GLIB_C 2.6

[Zdenek Wagner]

2010/11/22 George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com>:
> 2010/11/22 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>> 2010/11/22 George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com>:
>>> $  uname -a
>>> Linux [..] 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Oct 29 14:21:16 EDT 2010
>>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> $ tlmgr update --all
>>> tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
>>> tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/backups
>>> [1/42] auto-remove: acromake
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.x86_64-linux:
>>> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.6' not found (required by
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.x86_64-linux)
>>>
>> Where exactly do you see the problem practically? I use CentOS on
>> x86_64 which is a RHEL based distro, glibc is 2.5.34 but tlmgr updates
>> TL without any problem, formats were rebuilt without any error. I have
>> only TL2010 pretest on my i386 notebook.
>
> The problem is that tlmgr can't create the backups when xz.x86_64-linux
> fails to run.  Do you have backups enabled "tlmgr config .."?   I don't know
> if there are any other programs that need GLIBC_2.6 since I'm using i386
> binaries.
>
It wasn't enabled, I have just put it on the command line:

$ tlmgr update --all --backup
tlmgr: package repository http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/backups
[1/27] auto-remove: acromake
[2/27] auto-remove: armenian
[3/27] auto-remove: mapcodes
[4/27] auto-remove: siggraph
[5/27] auto-remove: mhs
...
My path is:
/home/wagner/velthuis/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux:/opt/jdk1.6.0_14/bin:...

>>> $ strings xzdec.x86_64-linux | grep GLIB
>>> GLIBC_2.2.5
>>> $ strings xz.x86_64-linux | grep GLIB
>>> GLIBC_2.2.5
>>> GLIBC_2.6            <-------------- RHEL has GLIBC_2.5
>>> GLIBC_2.3
>>>
>>> I use the i386-linux binaries on this system, so it is the installer
>>> that is invoking the x86_64linux version of xz.  A
>>> workaround should be to replace the x86_64 version with the i386 versiion:
>>>
>>> $ strings xz.i386-linux | grep GLIB
>>> GLIBC_2.2
>>> GLIBC_2.0
>>> GLIBC_2.1
>>> GLIBC_2.3
>>>
>>> Since I just did an update, it isn't obvious how to test the backups
>>> without waiting for an update to appear.
>>>
>>> --
>>> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
>>> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zdeněk Wagner
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>
>
>
>
> --
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
>



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Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz